My wife and I spent the better part of last Friday
afternoon and evening in the emergency room at a local hospital. Long story,
but all is well. While there, only a curtain separated our section of a room
from another. Several patients rotated through on the other side of the
curtain.
The first was a young man with terrible ear pain. A nurse
came to ask questions of the young man. He had no job. He smoked eight joints a
day and two to three cigarettes. He only drank on the weekend, but all weekend.
He would only laugh when asked about other drugs he might use. The older man would scold him, but there was
no punishment, just acceptance.
The next patient was a child who had been playing
football, tripped, and possibly had broken his wrist. Neither adult with the
child worked. The child was scared and in pain. The adults with the child kept
berating the child for making them get out of bed. It was after 4 o’clock in
the afternoon. A child in need of comfort
received criticism and anger — anger over the adult having to get out of bed,
anger over the male adult missing a wrestling program, anger about a waste of
time, etc.
This is a regular occurrence in hospitals. It is tragic.
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